{"product_id":"2940012074898","title":"FREE AIR","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER                                                         PAGE\u003cbr\u003e       I  MISS BOLTWOOD OF BROOKLYN IS LOST IN THE MUD              3\u003cbr\u003e      II  CLAIRE ESCAPES FROM RESPECTABILITY                       10\u003cbr\u003e     III  A YOUNG MAN IN A RAINCOAT                                21\u003cbr\u003e      IV  A ROOM WITHOUT                                           36\u003cbr\u003e       V  RELEASE BRAKES--SHIFT TO THIRD                           49\u003cbr\u003e      VI  THE LAND OF BILLOWING CLOUDS                             66\u003cbr\u003e     VII  THE GREAT AMERICAN FRYING PAN                            74\u003cbr\u003e    VIII  THE DISCOVERY OF CANNED SHRIMPS AND HESPERIDES           85\u003cbr\u003e      IX  THE MAN WITH AGATE EYES                                 101\u003cbr\u003e       X  THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE HILLSIDE ROAD               112\u003cbr\u003e      XI  SAGEBRUSH TOURISTS OF THE GREAT HIGHWAY                 119\u003cbr\u003e     XII  THE WONDERS OF NATURE WITH ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS      129\u003cbr\u003e    XIII  ADVENTURERS BY FIRELIGHT                                138\u003cbr\u003e     XIV  THE BEAST OF THE CORRAL                                 149\u003cbr\u003e      XV  THE BLACK DAY OF THE VOYAGE                             154\u003cbr\u003e     XVI  THE SPECTACLES OF AUTHORITY                             165\u003cbr\u003e    XVII  THE VAGABOND IN GREEN                                   176\u003cbr\u003e   XVIII  THE FALLACY OF ROMANCE                                  188\u003cbr\u003e     XIX  THE NIGHT OF ENDLESS PINES                              194\u003cbr\u003e      XX  THE FREE WOMAN                                          205\u003cbr\u003e     XXI  THE MINE OF LOST SOULS                                  219\u003cbr\u003e    XXII  ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD                            228\u003cbr\u003e   XXIII  THE GRAEL IN A BACK YARD IN YAKIMA                      237\u003cbr\u003e    XXIV  HER OWN PEOPLE                                          242\u003cbr\u003e     XXV  THE ABYSSINIAN PRINCE                                   254\u003cbr\u003e    XXVI  A CLASS IN ENGINEERING AND OMELETS                      270\u003cbr\u003e   XXVII  THE VICIOUSNESS OF NICE THINGS                          279\u003cbr\u003e  XXVIII  THE MORNING COAT OF MR. HUDSON B. RIGGS                 290\u003cbr\u003e    XXIX  THE ENEMY LOVE                                          300\u003cbr\u003e     XXX  THE VIRTUOUS PLOTTERS                                   307\u003cbr\u003e    XXXI  THE KITCHEN INTIMATE                                    310\u003cbr\u003e   XXXII  THE CORNFIELD ARISTOCRAT                                331\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIII  TOOTH-MUG TEA                                           345\u003cbr\u003e   XXXIV  THE BEGINNING OF A STORY                                361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFREE AIR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFREE AIR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISS BOLTWOOD OF BROOKLYN IS LOST IN THE MUD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the windshield was closed it became so filmed with rain that Claire\u003cbr\u003efancied she was piloting a drowned car in dim spaces under the sea. When\u003cbr\u003eit was open, drops jabbed into her eyes and chilled her cheeks. She was\u003cbr\u003eexcited and thoroughly miserable. She realized that these Minnesota\u003cbr\u003ecountry roads had no respect for her polite experience on Long Island\u003cbr\u003eparkways. She felt like a woman, not like a driver.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the Gomez-Dep roadster had seventy horsepower, and sang songs. Since\u003cbr\u003eshe had left Minneapolis nothing had passed her. Back yonder a truck had\u003cbr\u003etried to crowd her, and she had dropped into a ditch, climbed a bank,\u003cbr\u003ereturned to the road, and after that the truck was not. Now she was\u003cbr\u003eregarding a view more splendid than mountains above a garden by the\u003cbr\u003esea--a stretch of good road. To her passenger, her father, Claire\u003cbr\u003echanted:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heavenly! There's some gravel. We can make time. We'll hustle on to the\u003cbr\u003enext town and get dry.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes. But don't mind me. You're doing very well,\" her father sighed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstantly, the dismay of it rushing at her, she saw the end of the patch\u003cbr\u003eof gravel. The road ahead was a wet black smear, criss-crossed with\u003cbr\u003eruts. The car shot into a morass of prairie gumbo--which is mud mixed\u003cbr\u003ewith tar, fly-paper, fish glue, and well-chewed, chocolate-covered\u003cbr\u003ecaramels. When cattle get into gumbo, the farmers send for the\u003cbr\u003estump-dynamite and try blasting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was her first really bad stretch of road. She was frightened. Then\u003cbr\u003eshe was too appallingly busy to be frightened, or to be Miss Claire\u003cbr\u003eBoltwood, or to comfort her uneasy father. She had to drive. Her frail\u003cbr\u003egraceful arms put into it a vicious vigor that was genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the wheels struck the slime, they slid, they wallowed. The car\u003cbr\u003eskidded. It was terrifyingly out of control. It began majestically to\u003cbr\u003eturn toward the ditch. She fought the steering wheel as though she were\u003cbr\u003eshadow-boxing, but the car kept contemptuously staggering till it was\u003cbr\u003esideways, straight across the road. Somehow, it was back again, eating\u003cbr\u003einto a rut, going ahead. 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